It's not every day that..........
..... that you get woken at 4.35am by a 7.1 earthquake, of 70 seconds
duration (it was all I could do to hold on top the floor..), followed a few minutes later by another large one, with 30-40 large aftershocks (one rolled thru exactly as I typed that!!) in the 3.1 to 5.4 range, and dozens of smaller ones. That's what happened here in Christchurch, New Zealand today. The thing that amazed me was that we never lost the phones or cellphones the whole time, had internet the whole time, only had the water and sewer out for a couple of hours, and the power was back up by 11.00am. Haiti's recent bad one was 7.0.
Every house around us has structural damage, and we have a small crack in
one window..... You DO get lucky sometimes.
Greatfully wishing you all cheers,
Nigel in The Shakey Isles
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